Well, we know that ants use their extended phenotype (pheromone trails) as part of their collective decision making processes. And we know spiders that use thei

Well, we know that ants use their extended phenotype (pheromone trails) as part of their collective decision making processes. And we know spiders that use their extended phenotype (net) as part of their sensing apparatus. And we know that sensing and sensory processing are not clearly distinguishable. Personally, TIL that there is already a name "extended cognition"/"extended mind" connected to the idea. I just wonder that neither Wikipedia article recognizes that this is clearly a subfield of the more general idea of the "extended phenotype".